2022 Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Accounting and Finance is the 302nd most popular major in the country with 3,100 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 64 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting and finance programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the accounting and finance program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the Plains States Region

#1

Minnesota State University - Moorhead

Moorhead, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$9,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Finance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Moorhead landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Moorhead is a medium-sized school located in Moorhead, Minnesota that handed out 19 masters’s accounting and finance degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Moorhead also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Finance Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Minnesota State University - Moorhead are $9,900.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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